#Introduction: Hello, I am #new here! I was on #Diaspora for quite a few years but it was a very small community. Mastodon seems larger and more dynamic.
I'm mainly here to chat about #RPG games. I have been playing #DnD since the #1980s, starting with Moldvay #Basic and Keep on the Borderlands. These days I am mostly playing #DCC, but also enjoy Call of #Cthulhu, Traveller and #OSR games.
Besides #RPGs, I like British comics, especially #2000AD and its spin-offs. And #cycling.
Before the scaled sort was introduced, the hope was that it would provide a solution to surface posts from smaller communities, without being overrun by memes and political posts from larger communities. However, the scaled sort has been ineffective so far, as most posts appear with a single vote, making it practically the same...
It provides context and meaning to posts - just think of all the disambiguation pages on Wikipedia. Are you looking for Predator the film, the UAV, etc? Really only tags can help there - multitags or disambiguation? Or both? There are discussions to be had.
It allows more depth to things like communities - I was just talking to someone who had been failing to find a place to talk about a specific British comic until they found !britishcomics. With tags, I could have tagged the community with #dandy, #beano, #2000AD, #bunty, etc.
It also provides a way for Lemmy to integrate better with the Fediverse as it doesn’t currently play well with services outside the Threadiverse.
My current thinking is leaning towards FediTags - a separate, federated plug-in service. So you could run it with Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc and it would bring together all the tagged content. You look up stonehenge + photographs and get pictures on Pixelfed, Mastodon and kbin. As a plug-in the changes in code needed to, for example, Lemmy would be minimal and, hopefully, a one-time thing. Development of FediTag could then take place completely separately.
Recently announced for the big screen, this #2000AD property made the small screen in the 1980s. Unlike most other games based on 2000 AD strips, Rogue felt surprisingly authentic, with enemies and scenarios lifted from the comic. The monochrome visuals echoed the black-and-white source material too. It was short, but way better than the disasters that were Sláine and Judge Dredd.
Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy
Before the scaled sort was introduced, the hope was that it would provide a solution to surface posts from smaller communities, without being overrun by memes and political posts from larger communities. However, the scaled sort has been ineffective so far, as most posts appear with a single vote, making it practically the same...